Robin Lasser

Robin Lasser, Professor of Art at San José State University, creates photographs, video, site-specific installations, and public art that address issues of public health, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Her practice is deeply collaborative, engaging artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations, and international coalitions to produce public artworks that foster civic engagement and dialogue. 

Lasser has received numerous public art commissions and has exhibited widely at institutions including the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); Art Spot Lorin Gallery (Japan); Plattsburgh Museum of Art (New York); Oklahoma State Museum of Art; the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center; the Groningen Museum (Netherlands); Arena 1 Gallery as part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative; the San José Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Modern Art (Bangalore, India); the Museum of Goa (India); the Exploratorium Observation Gallery (San Francisco); the John Michael Kohler Arts Center; the Metenkov Museum of Photography (Yekaterinburg, Russia); the Recoleta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina); the Caixa Cultural Center (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the Aronson Galleries at Parsons School of Design (New York City); Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery (New York City); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the de Young Museum (San Francisco); the Osaka World Trade Center Museum (Japan); and the Academy of Performing Arts Film and TV School (Prague, Czech Republic). 

Her work has been featured in major international biennials, including ZERO1: Global Art on the Edge (San Jose, California), Nuit Blanche (Toronto, Canada), and the Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, China). Among her honors are an International Fulbright Fellowship (Egypt) and a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation.

Programs:

• Marcus Exhibition The Art and Architecture of Maybe (2026)
• P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists